Jacob Returns Home - Level BComplete lesson with activity choices: act out Jacob and Esau's meeting, make a diorama of their reunion, scripted story discussion, coloring picture, and a memory verse.Sunday School Lesson | Ages 7 - 10

Jacob Returns Home - Level CComplete lesson with activity choices: read about the appearance of angels and devils and draw cartoons depicting their spiritual qualities, map activity on Canaan's compass, and a scripted story discussion.Sunday School Lesson | Ages 11 - 14

Jacob Returns Home - Level DComplete lesson with activity choices: create ink blot pictures as the start of a discussion about seeing the face of God in other people, read about the appearance of angels and devils and draw cartoons depicting their spiritual qualities, and a scripted story discussion.Sunday School Lesson | Ages 15 - 17

Twenty'Twenty,' when referring to a quantity, signifies everything or fullness, because it is ten twice. 'Twenty,' as in Genesis 18:31, like all numbers occurring in...

Rams'Rams of the breed of Bashan,' as in Deuteronomy 32:14, signify celestial spiritual things.

Resources for parents and teachers

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Jacob's New Name - Level AComplete lesson with activity choices: act out the different animals Jacob gave to Esau with a teacher led call and response, make a heart pocket to represent Jacob's change of heart, scripted story discussion, coloring picture, and a memory verse.Sunday School Lesson | Ages 4 - 6

Jacob's New Name - Level BComplete lesson with activity choices: make a name banner to represent a quality you would like to have, using thumbprints make a mural of the many animals that Jacob gave Esau, scripted story discussion, coloring picture, and a memory verse.Sunday School Lesson | Ages 7 - 10

Jacob's New Name - Level CComplete lesson with activity choices: explore what's in a name--what some names mean and why they might be chosen, make decorative sun ornaments with quotations from the Word about light, and a scripted story discussion.Sunday School Lesson | Ages 11 - 14

Jacob's New Name - Level DComplete lesson with activity choices: explore the idea of wrestling with our faith and the tug of war in our minds between angels and evil spirits, look at the topic of praying in fear, and a scripted story discussion.Sunday School Lesson | Ages 15 - 17